Now showing: Metro movies in Oklahoma
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Published: November 6, 2009
Ratings are by Gene Triplett, Brandy McDonnell, George Lang and Matthew Price. Ratings are based on a four-star system: 1 star (poor), 2 stars (fair), 3 stars (should see), 4 stars (must see).
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"The Box”
PG-13
1:56
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(Not screened for press.)
"Coco Before Chanel”
PG-13
1:50
See review
"Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
PG
1:36
See review
"The Fourth Kind”
PG-13
1:38
See review
"The Men Who Stare at Goats”
R
1:30
See review
"Motherhood”
PG-13
1:30
—
(Not screened for press.)
Saturday only
"The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot”
Not rated
3:25
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(Not screened for press.)
Sunday only
"London Dreams”
Not rated
2:30
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(Not screened for press.)
First run
"Amelia”
PG
1:51
2½ stars
Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart, the famous pilot who vanished during an attempted around-the-world flight. (Some sensuality, language, thematic elements, smoking) BM
"Astro Boy”
PG
1:34
3 stars
Freddie Highmore voices the famous flying boy robot in this new version of the classic Japanese cartoon. (Action and peril, brief mild language) GL
"Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant”
PG-13
1:48
2½ stars
A teenager (Chris Massoglia) tries to join a freak show run by vampires. (Sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements, some language) WIRE
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”
PG
1:21
3 stars
Tulsa native Bill Hader plays an inventor who causes food to fall from the sky in this animated film. (Brief mild language) GL
"Couples Retreat”
PG-13
1:47
2 stars
Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau team up for a marital farce about couples trying to re-engage at an island getaway. (Sexual content, language) WIRE
"Halloween II”
R
1:41
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(Not screened for press.) Rob Zombie goes behind the mask again as killer Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) goes for more blood. (Strong brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, language, some crude sexual content, nudity)
"The Invention of Lying”
PG
1:40
3½ stars
Ricky Gervais (Britain’s "The Office”) co-directs, co-writes and stars in this comedy set in an alternate universe in which dishonesty doesn’t exist until his character introduces it. (Language including some sexual material, a drug reference) GT
"Law Abiding Citizen”
R
1:48
1½ stars
Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx star in this revenge thriller. (Strong, bloody, brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, pervasive language) GL
"Michael Jackson’s This Is It”
PG
2:01
3 stars
Michael Jackson’s rehearsals for a 50-date concert engagement that never took place are captured in this documentary. (Suggestive choreography, scary images) GL
"Paranormal Activity”
R
1:39
3 stars
In this micro-budget, documentary-style fright flick, a couple become increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence in their new suburban home. (Language) WIRE
"Play the Game”
PG-13
1:45
2 stars
A ladies man (Paul Campbell) teaches his widowed grandpa (Andy Griffith) some dating tricks in the AARP-friendly romantic comedy. (Sexual content, language) WIRE
"Saw VI”
R
2:00
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(Not screened for press.) The long-dead Jigsaw still has plenty of traps set in this sixth helping of torture and gore. (Sequences of grisly, bloody violence, torture, language)
"A Serious Man”
R
1:45
3 ½ stars
The Coen Brothers ("No Country for Old Men”) return to their Minnesota roots for this period black comedy about a 1960s university professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) whose personal life unravels. (Language, some sexuality and nudity, brief violence) GT
"The Stepfather”
PG-13
1:41
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(Not screened for press.) A young man (Penn Badgley) suspects his mother’s (Sela Ward) new man (Dylan Walsh) of evil intentions in this remake of the 1987 horror-thriller of the same name. (Intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, mature thematic material, brief sensuality)
"Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself”
PG-13
1:53
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(Not screened for press.) A nightclub singer (Taraji P. Henson) confronts her rough ways when forced to care for a relative’s kids. (Mature thematic material involving sexual assault on a minor, violence, drug references, smoking)
"Where the Wild Things Are”
PG
1:34
3½ stars
Director Spike Jonze’s ("Adaptation”) long-awaited take on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book stars Catherine Keener and Max Records as the mischievous Max. (Mild thematic elements, some adventure action, brief language) GL
"Zombieland”
R
1:21
4 stars
Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin try to survive a world overrun with the undead in this horror-comedy. (Horror violence, gore, language) GL
Discount
"(500) Days of Summer”
PG-13
1:35
4 stars
When his girlfriend Summer (Zooey Deschanel) dumps him, a hapless greeting card copywriter (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) combs through their 500-day relationship to try to figure out where things went wrong. (Sexual material, language) GL
"The Final Destination”
R
1:22
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(Not screened for press.) Death again stalks attractive young people in the latest installment of the fruitful franchise. (Strong violent/gruesome accidents, language, a scene of sexuality)
"G-Force”
PG
1:30
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(Not screened for press.) Guinea pigs save the world from a diabolical billionaire. (Mild action, rude humor)
"G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
PG-13
1:58
2 stars
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Channing Tatum and Dennis Quaid suit up for combat in this film based on Hasbro’s venerable action-figure line. (Strong sequences of action violence and mayhem throughout) MP
PG
2:33
3 stars
The origins of He Who Must Not Be Named are explored in the latest installment of J.K. Rowling’s series. (Scary images, some violence, language, mild sensuality) MP
"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”
PG
1:27
2 stars
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary for the third time lend their voices in this animated film. (Some mild rude humor, peril) WIRE
"Inglourious Basterds”
R
2:32
4 stars
Brad Pitt leads the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s World War II bloodlust epic about a Jewish-American Army detail killing as many Nazis as possible. (Strong graphic violence, language, brief sexuality) BM
"9”
PG-13
1:19
3 stars
A group of raggedy creatures soldier on after a human apocalypse. (Violence, scary images) BM
"Pandorum”
R
1:48
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(Not screened for press.) Two astronauts awaken on a seemingly abandoned spaceship and start learning the secrets of what happened on board. (Strong horror violence, language)
"Shorts”
PG
1:29
2½ stars
Robert Rodriguez’s latest kid-friendly adventure is a "Pulp Fiction”-style multiple-story line narrative about a magical wishing rock that causes havoc in an otherwise quirky suburb. (Mild action, some rude humor) BM
"The Time Traveler’s Wife”
PG-13
1:48
3 stars
Henry (Eric Bana) suffers from a disease that causes him to time-travel and meet his wife (Rachel McAdams) at various stages in her life. (Thematic elements, brief disturbing images, nudity, sexuality) GT
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Native Cinema Showcase
In collaboration with American Indian Cultural Center & Museum, the art museum will show a special slate of Oklahoma films for American Indian Heritage Month: Sterlin Harjo’s "Barking Water” (8 p.m. today and Saturday), the biopic "Pearl” (5:30 p.m. today, 2 p.m. Sunday), and the short film grouping "Emerging Native Stories” (5:30 p.m. Saturday).
"Bright Star”
PG
1:59
3 ½ stars
Oscar-winning writer-director Jane Campion ("The Piano”) portrays the three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). Their affair was cut short by Keats’ untimely death at age 25, so bring your hanky. (Thematic elements, some sensuality, brief language, incidental smoking) (7:30 p.m. Thursday, 5:30 p.m. Nov. 13-14, 2 p.m. Nov. 15) GL
Dome Theater, Science Museum Oklahoma
"Fly Me to the Moon”
G
1:30
2½ stars
Three houseflies stow away aboard an Apollo moon mission in this 3-D animated film. BM
"Wild Ocean”
Not rated
0:40
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(Not screened for press.) This documentary captures the feeding frenzy that occurs in the oceans off South Africa as billions of sardines migrate up the KwaZulu-Natal coast.
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